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This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources, papers and monographs, by well over 30 representatives of the school (Mathesius, Trnka, Skalička, Daneš, Dokulil, Mukařovský, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Isachenko, and others).

The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open, flexible, adaptable, and abstract system of systems used by human beings to communicate. This hommage to the Prague School presents papers in five areas of research:- Prague School phonology and its theoretical and methodological implications, ― The Prague School and functional discourse analysis, ― The Prague School and aspects of literary criticism, ― The sociological and ethnographical concerns of the Prague School, ― The Prague School's semiotic approach to the arts.

The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language planning context. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities that are not well-known to researchers in the field.